Publications

Publication details [#57723]

Milani, Tommaso M. 2013. Are ‘queers’ really ‘queer’? Language, identity and same-sex desire in a South African online community. Discourse & Society 24 (5) : 615–633.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gay | identity negotiation | internet | language and culture | language use

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores how members of meetmarket, a South African online dating site for gay men, discursively valorise, and thus make more desirable, specific identities to the detriment of others.